Blade Runner/Background

Basic Background: Unfamiliar Items, People, and Production

Unfamiliar Items: Images/Descriptions

Blade Runner: hunter of escaped replicants
The Blimp: promotional vehicle for "Off-World"
Spinner: flying police vehicle
Replicant: androids designed by Tyrell
Tyrell Corporation: producer of replicants
Voight-Kampff Machine: machine utilizing emotion to differiantiate replicants
from humans
Esper: photograph enhancing machine

People: Images/Description

Deckard: main character - ex-bladerunner
Dr Eldon Tyrell: designer of Nexus 6
Rachael : Tyrell's personal Nexus 6; romantically involved with Deckard
Roy Batty: leader of escaped Nexus'
Pris: eccentric replicant; befriends Sebastion
Zhora: exotic dancer repicant
Leon Kowalski: most violent of escaped replicants
J. F. Sebastian: mentally/physically impaired genetic designer of replicants;
friend of Tyrell
H. Bryant: police chief of Bladerunner division
Gaff:Deckard's mysterious sideick; makes origami
Chew: makes replicant eyes for Tyrell corporation
Holden: original bladerunner assigned to hunt escaped replicants
Mary: not in film; sixth replicant of group - housewife model

Production

Director: Ridley Scott(local link)
Producer: Michael Deeley(Internet Movie Database)
Visual Futurist: Syd Mead(local link)
Production Designer: Lawrence G. Paull(Internet Movie Database)
Composer: Vangelis(personalized site)
Screenplay: Hampton Fancher(Internet Movie Database)
Screenplay: David Peoples(Internet Movie Database)
Cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth(Internet Movie Database)
SFX: Douglas Trumbull(Internet Movie Database)

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